Xenosaurus

Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards; it is the only extant genus in the family Xenosauridae, with 14 species currently recognized.^[2] Also known as knob-scaled lizards, they can found in southwestern Tamaulipas and eastern Guerrero in Mexico.^[3] These lizards are known to feed on a variety of crawling and flying insects. This genus mostly eats orthopterans, coleopterans (beetles), dipterans, and myriapods.^[4]

Xenosaurus
Xenosaurus platyceps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Xenosauridae
Genus:	Xenosaurus W. Peters, 1861[1]

Species

The following 14 species are recognized as being valid.^[2][5]

• Xenosaurus agrenon King & F.G. Thompson, 1968
• Xenosaurus arboreus Lynch & Smith, 1965
• Xenosaurus fractus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018^[6]
• Xenosaurus grandis (Gray, 1856)
• Xenosaurus manipulus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Castresana-Villanueva, Canseco-Márquez, & Campbell, 2022
• Xenosaurus mendozai Nieto-Montes de Oca et al., 2013
• Xenosaurus newmanorum Taylor, 1949
• Xenosaurus penai Pérez Ramos, de la Riva & Campbell, 2000
• Xenosaurus phalaroanthereon Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & Flores-Villela, 2001
• Xenosaurus platyceps King & Thompson, 1968
• Xenosaurus rackhami L.C. Stuart, 1941
• Xenosaurus rectocollaris H.M. Smith & Iverson, 1993
• Xenosaurus sanmartinensis Werler & Shannon, 1961 - San Martin knob-scaled lizard
• Xenosaurus tzacualtipantecus Woolrich-Piña & G.R. Smith, 2012

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenosaurus.